Blacksmith



' 20 punchin SIMON DE LA PENA, F

BLACKSMI PATENT OFFICE.

CENTRAL, NEW MEXICO.

THS ANVIL.

Application filed May 15 '1 '0 all whom it may concern Be it known thatI, SIMON DE LA PnNA, a citizen of the United States, residing atCentral, in the county of Grant, State of New exico, have inventedcertain new and useful Im rovements in' Blacksmiths Anvils; and l dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit a 'Jpert-ains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to anvils and particularly to attachments foranvils.

As is well known to those skilled in the art, there are a great manytasks to be performed at the anvil that require much mechanical skilland many of them requiring the services of two operators. Among thesetasks may be included the making of welds,

g, bending and shaping. Many require the use of'special tools and it isthe object of the resent invention to enable the unskilled lnec ianio toperform many of these tasks that could otherwise be erformed only 25 byaskilled operator and iiirthermore to enable the performance of manytasks by a single operator that might otherwise require two.

, In carrying the invention into efiect, there 30 is employed a mainbody member having a shank that is passed through the hardy hole andwhich serves to hold the'body member in place upon the face of theanvil. When a supplemental plate is to be used jointly with the bodymember between it and the anvil, the shank will serve to hold both thebody and the plate in position and it is provided with means forclamping it t1 htl teflirfing Figure 1 is a perspective view of aportion of the device in its detached position, v F i 2 is a perspectiveview of a portion of the d evice attached to the anvil, Fig 3 is'aperspective view of another ,form of the device attached to the anvil,

Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing one use ofthe device when attachedto the anvil, Fig. 5 is a detail View of o e of the plates oftheattachment,

Fig. 6 is adetail view of another plate, Fig. 7 is a detail view ofstill another plate, and

Fig. 8 is a detail view of a mechanism used in connection with 4,0 tothe drawings:

punching 6 5 the pres- Speolfication of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 7, 1920.

, 1917. Serial No. 168,813.

ent invention and shown in position in Figs. 1 and 2.

Referring more particularl ings, the reference character an anvil, theupper face of which is provided with a rectangular opening, common toall blacksmiths anvils.

Referring to Fig. l, the number 11 designates the body member which is aplate or block, whose upper face is provided with a transverse groove12. sci'ni-ci1'cul:lr in cross section, and a transverse groove 13,semicircular in cross section, which groove is adjacent the transversegroove 12 but of a different size for a purpose to be hereinafterdescribed. Extending downwardly through the member 11 are rectangularslots 14 and 15 near one end thereof, and near the other end a slot 16is provided, while extending downwardly through the transverse grooves12 and 13 are circular openings 17. The under face of the member 11 isprovided 7 with transverse grooves l8, l9 and which are semi-circular incross section and are of different dimensions, and between thesemicircular grooves 18 and 19 is an angular groove 21. One end of thismember or block 13 cut out as at 22 to form upper and lower spaced jaws23, and passing through the up per jaw '23 are a series of perforationsor openings whose upper ends are counterbored or enlarged to producetool guides or recesses 24. Secured to the block adjacent tie jaws 23 isa yoke y to the draw- 10 designates perforations 24 in the upper jaw'23. yoke member 25 is secured in place by the depending legs 28 havinginturned feet 28 clamped beneath the body member 11.

epending from under the face of the member ll is a shank 29 which isslotted as at 30 and adapted to pass through said slot30 is a wedge 31,and embracing the squared shank 29 is a squared washer 32, said washerresting on theupper edge of the wedge 31. Thus is produced a strainingmeans for drawing the body member down toward the anvil and clampinganother member beneath it.

As shown in Fig. l a lower member or base plate 34 is adapted to be usedin connection with the member 11, said plate having semi-circulartransverse grooves 35, 36

and 37 and an angular transverse groove 38. This plate member isprovided with a squared opening near one of its ends adapted to reeeivethe squared shank to seeure the plate in place between the jaw member 11aml the top faee ot' the anvil. and when it is in this position itssemieireular transverse grooves 35, "in and $57 eoineide with thesemi-eireular transverse grooves l8, l9 and :20 to form eireularopenings of ditl erent diameters. and the angular transverse groove 21and the angular transverse groove 38 form a squared opening. The basemember eorresponds sub stantially with the shape of the body memher orbloek although it is preferably thinner.

The reetangular openings H. l? and [ti and the eireular openings l? areadapted to reeeive the shanks of any of the small anvil tools eonnnonlyused in eouneetion with air \ils. the shanks of said tools being merelyinserted in these openings as desired.

in Fig. 2. the (leviee is shown as operat ing as a puneh only. and itwill be seen that y impaet ot' a hammer upon the puuehiug elements 27.the same are eaused to engage a strip of metal or other pieee of workwhieh is passed between the jaws 23. thus pert'orating the strip as willbe understood. it is tobe understood. of eourse. that the puuehes -7 maybe of various sizes and shapes as desired. i

in Fig. 3. the punehing deviee is removed. and a base plate sueh as thatshown in Fig. l is inserted between the member It and the anvil I l. andas shown by the reterenee elniraeter 42 a strip of metal is insertedbetween the end extension 45% ot' the member H and the end extension 41-ot' the plate 34 and the strip bent as at in by impart of a hammer uponthe opposite sides of the extension 44. Another strip 45 separates themembers at the other end. These strips eoie mum spat-era." and whenemployed they enlarge the openings produeed by the registering groovesdeseribed.

in Fig. 4. the deviee is shown as used for welding together the ends ofmetal strips aml 51. In this illustration the member it alone is used.

in Fig 5 a top member or t'aeing is shown, and from said plate projeetsa reetungular tongue 71 whieh is adapted to he reeeived in the opening14 ot' the member It to retain the plate Ttt in plat-e thereon, and saidplate is provided with a plurality of eireular openings 72, areetaugular opening T3 and a eirenlar opening 74 by means of whiehvarious operations may be earried out when the deviee is in-plaee on theanvil. This plate 7" also has an extension 75 whieh is provided with areetangular opening 76 whieh is adapted for alinement with the openingto in th body member. The t'aeing for end and its ipenmg 15.

shown an extra base plate 60 with reetangular openr one end, and nearits openings 63 and (it and other openings 13:": and 66 of differentsizes. The reetaugula adapted to reeeive to seeure the plate in plate InFig. 7

plate 77 provided with a T8, a reetangular opening 79, a 80, and a ofen-eular openings 81, S2. 83,-ant 84.

spaeed rectangular slots seeuring this plate 77.to tl tangular shank 2!)is through the reetangular either extra plate is member ll and the bysetting up the wedge 01 ating the straining means e extra base platespurpose] extensions 44 and 75 so ast under the opening it shank openings(52 and 79 to their remote ends than 34. so that when used he with orwithout said plate 2 anee body also. The openings plates, other thanthose to disposed to aline with the openings in the body and and thesame may be said in the laeing is held aeeulately tongue rather thanelear to those familiar upon t the sh r opening 62 is the dependingshank 29 on the anvil.

is shown another extra base eireular opening pair of plurality In toanvil, the recadapted to pass opening 79, and elamped between the toplate of the anvil 1O otherwise actu mployed. These y omit the end oleave clearance and beyond their thev are shorter is the base plateneath the body, 14, there is clearbelow the openings in this end of thein these extra r the shank, are various upright the base plate; of the oenings plate TH. although this plate he. body by the ank. It will bewith this art that,

while the openings in the superposed members are in Mill ahnement, theyare not;

neeessaril) ot the same size exeepting those whieh are to eloselyreeeive the shank 01 the tongue. The ol and niit the intriuluetion toolsin these containing the latter serve paeities aeeording to the As anillustration, let us puneh is to be employed round and perhaps a halfwhile its bit is purpose is to a quarter inch square.

eruse of various openings, and the members in ditt'erent cairarrangement. assume that; a whose shank is inch in diameter Such a tooleould not be. passed down through one ot the openings 1 in an underlyinggroove 38 plate. 34. and aeeordmgly 7 to perform punching or 36 in thebase an extra plate sueh as that numbered 60 would be clamped under thebody with its quarter opening (it serving as the inch square female dieto eoaet. with the square bit. while the circular opening 17 above it.won

guide. for the shank of this tool.

other illustration. hand d are tools whereof eaeh is own handle and heldby th ld serve as the As anies and punehes mounted on its e operatorwhile he strikes a blow on the tool. In this case the facing plate 70might he used, and its openings 72 (mnstitute female dies of a varietyof sizes.

Referring to Fig. 8 it will be seen that the upper jaw 23 is providedwith a plu- -rality of spaced recesses 24 as heretofore stated, andmounted in these theopenings 26 of the yoke are the shanks oi. the punchelements 27. Each shank has at its lower end a reduced cutting portionor hit and surrounding the same is a coil spring restin on the bottom ofthe recess iii to provii e means for resiliently mounting the punclnuelements 2?. These members onfurther provided with cross pins 58 or tin;like which prevent them tiring out of th yoke member under the influenceof said coil springs.

From the foregone, it will lw soon ihat the present invention .iroridrsmeans by which a hlacksmith's anvil togvthrr with its severalattachments and devices may he used by one not skilled in the usethereof. and permits of an unskilled person readily accomplishing thedifferent operations which only those familiar with the hlark smithingtrade could perform without the use of these attachments.

Having thus described the invention. What is claimed is:

1. An attachment for anvils comprising a body provided with a pluralityof forming surfaces and having a depending slmnk adapted to pass throughthe hardy hole of an anvil, said shank having means for drawing andholding it tilifiiigll the hardy hole, and a cooperating plate hnr ingan opening to receive the shank and forming surfaces arranged forco-iiperathm With corresponding surfaces of theliody.

2. An attachment for anvils com )rising a body provided with a plurality0. open a shank adapted to pass ings and havinf;

iardy hole of an anvil,

through the straining means for drawing the shank (low ard and the bodytoward the anvil,

and a roii wrating mcinhcr clamped between said body and anvil by saidmeans and having openings adapted to nliue with those in the body atthis time, for the purpose set forth.

3. An altarhinent for anvils comprising a hody having a depending shankadapted to pass down through the hardy hole of an anvil. means fordrawing said shank downward. :i "N pl'lfltlHg plate having an opening toirrriutthe shank, and a (30 operating nicmhi-r having retaining clomcntercmomhl disposed hr-tnrrn the body and plate and adapted in he clampedtherehy. said lath. lain and nu-mher having penings adapted to aiinr atthis time, for the purpmr wt l orthi 4. iii] ailarlonent l'or nnrilsromprisnnp a: li it prmidmi with 1| plurality of form ins! Mi tnrrs andi My; a iii-pending li2li1l adapted to pa they; through the hardy hole(1! an anvil means for drawing: said shank downward, a cooperating plateharing an opening to receive the shank and forming surfaces arranged forooiiperation with corresponding surt'arrs oi the body, and a cooperatingmember having a retaining tinge-r rcnu'ivalily disposed between the hodyand plate and adapted to he clamped thou-l1 said hotly. plntr, andmember havin; openings adapted to aliiw at this time. for the purposeset forth.

in testimony WiH'ltEO'l i alii; my signator in the pifstiwe of twonilnessis.

frillll i h DE LA ilfli t W'i'tnesscs Pm LLIP GREEK, Rin'irn M

